Followers of developer Argonaut’s warmly remembered 3D platformer Croc: Legend of the Gobbos are in for a blast of nostalgia; after a little bit of a delay, its beforehand introduced remaster has been given a launch date, and is launching for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Swap on 2nd April.
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, for the uninitiated (or younger), launched for the unique PlayStation in 1997, taking gamers – within the guise of the titular crocodile – on a journey via Gobbo Valley in a bid to free their mates from the evil magician Baron Dante. The ensuing journey wasn’t precisely a basic of the style, nevertheless it actually had followers.
And now, Argonaut – which was resurrected final yr, 20 years after its unique closure – is revisiting Croc’s first outing with a nostalgia-tweaking replace. It guarantees “vibrant high-definition graphics, a contemporary management and digicam system, and refined gameplay mechanics” as gamers enterprise throughout “superbly recrafted” ranges.
That is alongside the addition of a Crocipedia – a “painstakingly curated” digital museum charting the unique sport’s improvement via design paperwork, idea artwork, animation exams, pre-release music tracks, and interviews with builders previous and current.
If all that is crammed you with the giddy heat of recollections previous, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos launches digitally for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Swap, and PC by way of GOG on 2nd April, the place it will price $29.99 USD.
